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At home. Mini recession as soldiers returned GI Bill, FHA and the VA help Operation Dixie and the CIO Taft Hartley Act. GI Bill. Economic Growth. Korea and NSC-68 Higher levels of education Works shifts away from agriculture White collar jobs Cheap energy Low oil prices. Baby Boom. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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At homeMini recession as soldiers
returnedGI Bill, FHA and the VA helpOperation Dixie and the CIOTaft Hartley Act
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GI Bill
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Economic GrowthKorea and NSC-68Higher levels of educationWorks shifts away from
agriculture White collar jobsCheap energyLow oil prices
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Baby Boom
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Suburbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
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1950s Consumerism
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Women in the 50sMarch in to work force, two of
every five married mothers worked outside the home by 1959
Popular culture pushes idea of “cult of domesticity”
Benjamin Spock and “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care”
Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique
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American keeps movingSunbelt SuburbsWhite Flight
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Rock and Roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI
Crossover musicElvisChuck Berry
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New American LiteratureSylvia Plath and the Bell JarHemingway and The Old Man and
the SeaNorman Mailer- The Naked and
the DeadJohn Updike- Run, Rabbit, Run
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
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Beginning of the Cold WarDivision of Germany and the “iron
curtain”
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Berlin Airlift
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United Nations
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Truman DoctrineI believe that it must be the policy of the United States to
support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
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Marshall Plan
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America RearmsNational Security Act creates the
Department of Defense, the National Security Council and the CIA
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NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Rebuilding AsiaMacArthur and Japan
China falls to Mao
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McCarthyismSmith Act- first peace time
sedition actHUACHollywood Ten and BlacklistNixon v Alger HissJulius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Election of 1948Division in Democratic partyDixiecrats- Strom Thurmond
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Truman and the Fair DealImproved housingFull employmentHigher minimum wageNew TVAsSocial Security
It fails!
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Korean War